Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door leading to the gallery on which his chamber stands was locked by the guards , whilst the other end of the passage is blocked by fallen masonry . |
| 2 | In practice , however , the Church lost little — the suppression of the ‘ alien priories ’ by Henry V merely saw the conversion of resources to other ecclesiastical establishments , and the disappearance of a small number of decayed religious houses in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was caused by the transfer of their endowments to other houses or to colleges at universities ( 218 , ii , 163–5 , iii , 157–8 ) . |
| 3 | A proposal by Germany to create CSCE peace-keeping units was opposed by the United States , the United Kingdom and France . |
| 4 | A law giving the government the power to lift bans on direct links with China and to exchange representative offices was adopted by the Legislative Yuan , or parliament , on July 16 after almost two years of debate . |
| 5 | Sir , — My regiment The Queens Royal Irish Hussars was formed by the amalgamation of The 4th Queens Own Hussars and The 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars , in 1958 . |
| 6 | However , at last year 's SNP conference , a call to drop the commitment to renationalise the public utilities was made by the convener of publicity , John Swinney , and was supported by a former party leader , Gordon Wilson . |
| 7 | The precariousness of personal ties was demonstrated by the gradual reduction in the numbers of those in positions of influence in both countries who had gone through the great co-operative experience of the Second World War and the early stages of the Cold War . |
| 8 | The conflict between male and female anxieties was compounded by the conflict between the disparate values of home and school — two closed systems at variance with each other . |
| 9 | A draft law lifting the ban on political parties was passed by the National Assembly after being approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate on July 5 and 23 respectively . |
| 10 | Palmer 's opening move was to oppose the introduction of a General Tax Ordinance for Nigeria , and , with the support of the Residents , to propose a return to the 1906 Native Revenue Ordinance , which stated that the tax paid in the Northern Provinces was levied by the native authorities with the approval but not at the direction of the governor . |
| 11 | As we have seen , the policy for the polytechnics was outlined by the government in the White Paper , A Plan for Polytechnics and Other Colleges , issued in May 1966 . |
| 12 | The Chinese attitude to history was based on the belief that the rise and fall of dynasties was controlled by the mandate of Heaven . |
| 13 | To the enthusiast , the loss of no less than fourteen locomotive designs was countered by the application of highly distinctive sector liveries , all the more interesting because of the number of attempts made before the final choices were made . |
| 14 | Advertising was directed to restricting peak sales , and capital spending on the building of new shops was limited by the shortages of building materials . |
| 15 | A recent signing tour of record shops was cancelled by the police because of the volume of fans that was bound to turn up . |
| 16 | A report on the case involving the removal of the nine South Ronaldsay children from their homes was sent by the police to the Procurator Fiscal in Wick . |
| 17 | The resolution adopted in June by the newly-founded United Nations was ratified by the Potsdam Conference in July . |
| 18 | Subsequent economic development in these newly independent nations was assisted by the overall growth of world trade and investment . |
| 19 | In all other cases the chosen outcome of business clients was adopted by the lawyer . |
| 20 | The Commission considered that the United Kingdom was scarcely in a position to claim otherwise , since until 1988 the right to the flag of fishing vessels was governed by the far less restrictive provisions of the Act of 1894 , which continued to apply to merchant ships . |
| 21 | Separation of vesicles from micelles was performed by the gel filtration method using a 350×10 mm column packed with Sephacryl S-300 gel ( Pharmacia LKB , Uppsala , Sweden ) as reported . |
| 22 | To make matters worse , Piers was standing by the door when she returned , half naked , his T-shirt tied loosely around his waist , chiselling meticulously at the door-frame . |
| 23 | In many cases , therefore , the programme followed by primary schools was determined by the need to prepare a minority of pupils for an examination at 11 . |
| 24 | In accordance with standing order A twelve little C in force at the time , Councillor of m notice of motion on Local Management of Schools was referred by the Council t on twenty third of April 1991 to the Education Committee . |
| 25 | On 24 May 1858 , the foundation stone of New Bradwell and Stantonbury Schools was laid by the Marchioness of Chandos . |
| 26 | He added that , in the meanwhile , DK had entered a number of new geographical markets , including Taiwan , Korea , Thailand , India , Argentina , Mexico and the Middle East ; and that the decline in sales of children 's books was offset by the very strong growth in adult titles . |
| 27 | For Harlequin , this shift in the production and distribution of books was marked by the Torstar Corporation taking over a 52 per cent share of their company stock in 1975 . |
| 28 | A standby arrangement of up to 85,000,000 special drawing rights ( US$111,000,000 ) over the next 11 months was announced by the IMF on April 23 , 1990 ; an additional SDR42,500,000 ( US$55,000,000 ) under the compensatory and contingency financing facility ( CCFF ) , to help alleviate pressures caused by the loss of petroleum revenue , was also made available over the same period . |
| 29 | ANGER among Conservative backbenchers was voiced by the former prime minister Edward Heath last night as Tory MPs appeared to back away from a full-scale rebellion over the imposition of VAT on domestic fuel and power in the Budget . |
| 30 | But the gratitude of pro-Market backbenchers was offset by the assurances she offered to anti-Marketeers like Tory Jonathan Aitken , and Labour 's Peter Shore . |